quotativeness

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noun

Quality of being quotative.

OriginEnglish quotative ← Middle English quoten ← Old French coter →
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Meanings

nounquotativeness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableQuality of being quotative.

    Third, while there are a lot more verbs of saying that^([sic]) there are of asking, the same relationship between quotativeness and embedding obtains with that as obtained with if: […]

    1978, Dwight Bolinger, “Yes—No Questions Are Not Alternative Questions”, in Henry Hiż, editor, Questions (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy; volume 1), →DOI, →ISBN, page 94

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kʷ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kʷó-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*kʷóti
  4. Proto-Italic*kʷot
  5. Latinquot
  6. Latinquotus
  7. Medieval Latinquotāre
  8. Old Frenchcoter
  9. Middle Englishquoten
  10. Englishquote
  11. Englishquotative
  12. Englishquotativeness

From quotative + -ness.

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APA

quotativeness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quotativeness

MLA

“quotativeness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quotativeness. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “quotativeness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/quotativeness.

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